Quotes of: Election-day Keyword

Connecticut's first responders and defense workers work every day to help us achieve these goals.

Christopher Dodd

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

Don Bluth

When you work alongside somebody day in and day out, the relationships tend to be wonderful: they're lifelong.

James L. Brooks

I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.

Patricia Highsmith

I attended college in Los Angeles and wore black pumps to work every day.

Ree Drummond

When I was playing college basketball, I had to work out every day; it benefited me physically.

Romeo Miller

Every day I work my guts out in training, every match I play my heart out.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

Gloria Allred

That man will fight us every day and every hour till the end of the war.

James Longstreet

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

Walter Mosley

Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization ─ Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism ─ Jesus quietly picked up a towel and bas...

Church: Why Bother?: My Personal Pilgrimage

Christian theological history is filled with stories of groups who have developed theories of the election of themselves to salvation and the damnation of others; theories that demonstrate that their particular group has been exclusively endowed with...

Doubts and Loves: What is Left of Christianity

There must be a lot of duplication in our country’s laws," said Dukhi. "Every time there are elections, they talk of passing the same ones passed twenty years ago. Someone should remind them they need to apply the laws." "For politicians, passing l...

A Fine Balance

If you can't, or won't, think of Seymour, then you go right ahead and call in some ignorant psychoanalyst. You just do that. You just call in some analyst who's experienced in adjusting people to the joys of television, and Life magazine every Wednes...

Franny and Zooey

A brick could be used to help defeat all incumbent politicians whose last name starts with Brj and anything after that alphabetically. Since people tend to vote for the first one on the ballot, Brick would not only benefit from the stupidity of the c...

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

One of the juiciest pleasures of life is to be able to salute and embrace, as elected leaders and honored representatives, people whom you first met when they were on the run or in exile or (like Adam) in and out of jail. I was to have this experienc...

Hitch-22: A Memoir

In never-ending efforts to defeat incumbent officeholders in hard times, the public is perpetuating the source of its discontent, electing a new group of people who are even less inclined to or capable of crafting compromise or solutions to pressing ...

It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the Politics of Extremism

I had a dream about you. You told me you loved me, and then you stabbed me with a spoon. Luckily, moments before your attack, I assumed the identity of a bowl of Jell-O. Later on in the dream, as a half-eaten bowl of Jell-O, I launched a successful p...

I Had a Dream About You

Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. T...

Money, Possessions and Eternity

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean ...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss th...

Paradise Lost